The “Flint Made Me” scholarship was created by Woodyard, who is a Flint Journal sportswriter. Woodyard created a documentary about how growing up in Flint made him into the person that he is today to create support for the scholarship.

Davis, a Flint Southwestern Classical Academy senior, has a 3.6 grade point average and will attend Ferris State University.

She will receive $500 through the scholarship and will use it for books and other fees. Davis said she plans to come back to Flint and help kids who grew up in situations similar to hers.

“In the future, I plan on creating a few programs for my hometown. I want to have a program for kids who’ve been in foster care like I have before and kids who are current foster children,” she wrote in her scholarship essay. “When I was in foster care, I needed a lot of guidance and I never got it. I stayed mad at myself and the world because I felt as if it was my fault. When in reality, I had no control over it. I want to be that someone they look up to.”

Christa A. Hall

The other recipient was Christa A. Hall, a senior at Flint Northwestern. She has a 4.0 GPA, is the valedictorian of her class and will attend Tuskegee University to study biology.

Hall will receive $200 through the scholarship.

Woodyard said he couldn't believe the amount of support he got in the first of the award.

"It’s been great support from the community," he said. "Actually, it shocked me. Every where I went, people were asking for a T-shirt."